News and updates from Bangladesh
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladesh sets an ambitious target of creating 21.94 million jobs in the tourism sector alone by 2040 as part of a broader strategy to transform tourism into a major co...
Bangla Press Desk: Russian Ambassador to Bangladesh Alexander G Khokholin paid a courtesy call on Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr Shafiqur Rahman at his office in Bashundhara at 11am on Thursday. At the outset of the meeting, the...
Bangla Press Desk: Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (DUCSU) Vice President-elect Abu Shadik Kayem has pledged to provide unwavering service to students, stressing that accountability will remain the cornerstone of the new leadership. “St...
Bangla Press Desk: Workers of Eurozone Fashion Garments once again staged demonstrations in the capital’s Kuril area on Thursday demanding unpaid wages and allowances. Just nine days earlier on 2 September, the workers blocked the sa...
Bangla Press Desk: In order to comprehensively showcase the achievements of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) cooperation between China and Bangladesh, the second edition of exhibition has been inaugurated at the International Convention C...
Bangla Press Desk: The Department of Environment (DoE), under a special initiative of the Ministry of Environment, has conducted 1,540 mobile court drives across the country between January 2 and September 11, 2025, resulting in 3,797 cases...
Bangla Press Desk: The swelling wave of public anger first swept through the island nation of Sri Lanka in 2022 and ousted the president. Two years later, it erupted in Bangladesh as protesters toppled the ruling government. On Monday publi...
Bangla Press Desk: Two people were killed and 15 others injured in a head-on-collision between two buses on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in Bhaluka upazila of Mymensingh district on Saturday. The identities of the deceased could not be know...
Bangla Press Desk: Adviser Mahfuj Alam attended two programmes in London on Friday smoothly, despite protests by a small group of Bangladeshis against his presence. The London Metropolitan Police remained in constant contact with the Ba...
Bangla Press Desk: Additional IGP Md Rezaul Karim assumed charge as the chief of the Anti-Terrorism Unit (ATU) on Thursday morning. On his first day in office, he pledged to modernize and strengthen Bangladesh’s counterterrorism operation...
Bangla Press Desk: Police have arrested an individual along with stolen money of around Taka25 lakh and a motorcycle purchased from Manikganj district. The arrested was identified as Md Kausar Ahmed (22). Banani thana police arrested...
Bangla Press Desk: Renowned Lalon singer Farida Parveen has passed away at the age of 71 years. (Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un). She breathed her last at Universal Medical College Hospital at 10:15 pm on Saturday (13 September)...
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladesh’s tourism industry continues to lag behind its South Asian peers, with a decline reported in the business last year, apparently due to deterioration in political stability and law and order. The situation i...
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